On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 01:33:04PM +0000, Edwin Leuven wrote:
> > > Does this count as comment? ;-)
> >
> > I guess not ;-)
> >
> > At the moment the various bullets are put/defined in static strings
> > within the Bullet class. If you have a look in Bullet.C you will see this
> > in bulletEntry(int,int).
>
> I wonder why such a bullet can't be a thin wrapper around a std::string
> like "\ding{49}"? Is this just a performance enhancement?
It was more a matter of: it's easier to generate the string from a
table of the known bullets that it is/was to attempt to remap a string
to a bullet table position.
The thing is the bullet tabs were always supposed to have the current
bullet "pushed" for whatever level you were setting (ie. the
pseudo-push-button was supposed to be indented but that never worked
because of limitations in the image map thingy.
A string is stored however for those cases where a person decides to
customise the latex command -- such as wanting a rotated \ding{49}.
> > Thing is that I need them so that users can set custom bullets using the
> > UI.
>
> You need the strings?
All of them at once? Why?
Why couldn't you just request the string when the appropriate button
is pushed? That is, use a Bullet as a lookup table. I haven't looked
at your code yet. But I don't see why you need to change this -- even
loading the pixmaps into the respective buttons on a bullets tab
shouldn't have needed removing the strings. Maybe I'm forgetting
something after all I wrote this stuff about 6 years ago.
Allan. (ARRae)
